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#269 – Lee Cronin: Origin of Life, Aliens, Complexity, and Consciousness

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Is the Total Energy of the Universe Increasing Over Time?

If time is fundamental and the universe is inflating in time, then there are one or two conservation laws that we need to have a look at. And I wonder if that means the total energy of the universe is actually increasing over time. We do have all this dark energy that's, we have some anomalies, let's say, dark matter and dark energy. If we don't add them in, galaxies, so dark matter, I think doesn't hold - you know, you need to hold the galaxies together. Could dark energy just be time?

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